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"And the more people meditate, the more it increases the positive vibrations turning the planet into a positive, happy place. The more you do that, the greater service you are to God."
"If you play basketball, you get into the zone. You can't miss. That's the expansive mindset we're all seeking. But that only comes when the mind is quiet and separate from the noise. And the greatest tool to eliminate the noise is meditation."
"Needing nothing really is the ultimate goal. And to have nothing to do with things."
"Hollywood is full of very liberal people, but it still has an infrastructure that needs to be broken."
"My idea is to integrate black stars into mainstream stars. It hasn't been explored properly. That's what Im doing in Hollywood."
"At the shock of a joke, everything disappears but the present moment."
"Fortunately, Hollywood is open to change. It's just a question of how to go about doing it."
"Quiet time is the key. We have hundreds of thousands of kids around the country meditating through the David Lynch Foundation."
"The always-connected culture isn't as much a contributor as Grace might think. The nervous mind, the monkey mind, will create its own noise. It doesn't need a new toy."
"The greatest tool to eliminate the noise is meditation."
"Nothing increases happiness like quiet time. The truth is, the only moments that make you laugh or happy are seconds of stillness."
"No one wants to sell to just 12% of the population for the entire length of their careers. It creates a difficult and less-profitable environment. But Hollywood has lived with that limiting mantra, and only a few black stars have managed to break through."
"86% of its audience was made up of people of color. That tells you that the full potential of many black stars won't be realized until their audiences are fully integrated."
"I have a pilot called The Re-Education of Oliver Cooper starring the white kid from Project X where follows a black girl to a black university, like in Legally Blonde. I have so many fun projects."
"Sometimes, a new toy, a new technology, will focus you. The world is always trying to draw you out, so you always have to remember to go in."
"Sitting in stillness has got to be the greatest asset I have in terms of attaining happiness."
"Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write."
"Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form."
"I'm a full disclosure kind of person."
"I signed Jay-Z because he was on fire. I wasn't a genius. The record was great. I put it on The Nutty Professor soundtrack and we signed him."